Entrepreneur turned author Dave Ingram has a new blog about the entrepreneur’s life. It’s called Bedtime Stories That Keep Entrepreneurs Awake At Night. Each post answers a sort of question a child might ask – if the child dreamed of starting a business.
Aaron Kremer
Aaron Kremer is the founder of Richmond BizSense. Email him at [email protected].
Newsfeed 2.5.09
27% of ex-LandAmerica workers laid off by Fidelity (Times-Dispatch) By the end of January, the Jacksonville, Fla.-based company had cut 1,500 jobs, or 27 percent of the work force it inherited from the purchase of LandAmerica’s subsidiaries — Lawyers Title Insurance Co., Commonwealth Land Title Corp. and United Capital Title Insurance Co. Anheuser-Busch InBev narrows… Read more »
Newsfeed 2.4.09
Area to feel Qimonda demise (Times-Dispatch) Some great reporting and analysis on a story we broke yesterday. Shutting down production of Qimonda AG’s computer memory-chip manufacturing plant in eastern Henrico County means the loss of 1,500-plus high-paying tech jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue to the county and the state. A plan to… Read more »
Qimonda to close Richmond plant, lay off 1,500
Beleaguered computer chip manufacturer Qimonda announced this morning that it will close its Richmond operation, letting go around 1,550 of its 1,600 remaining employees.
Shipper departs Richmond
The Port of Richmond will lose its main carrier at the end of March. Belgium-based Independent Container Lines said last week that it would stop using Richmond to load and unload mid-Atlantic cargo and instead set up in Wilmington, N.C. ICL accounts for about 75 percent of the traffic at the port, which employs about… Read more »
Newsfeed 2.3.2009
LandAmerica to cut 291 more jobs (Times-Dispatch) Bankrupt Henrico title insurer LandAmerica filed notice with the state that all headquarters jobs would be phased out by Dec. 31. Employees will not receive any severance. The first wave of cuts will come April 1 and affect 42 people. The biggest wave will happen April 15 when… Read more »
Smoking bills advance in Senate
Smoking is a hot topic in this year’s General Assembly. Several bills were introduced in the Senate that either ban or regulate smoking in Virginia. The Senate Education and Health Committee voted last week to allow five of those bills to move forward and appear before the full Senate.
Discounts for Circuit City employees
While Circuit City is stingy with the liquidation specials – offering a measly 10% off MSRP – at least one local business is trying to lure Circuit City employees by offering a better discount.
Launch, baby, launch
We interrupt your regularly scheduled BizSense reading to bring you this update. For those of you who maybe didn’t notice the difference, we relaunched the website this morning. And, boy, are my arms tired.
Newsfeeds For 2.02.2009
Theme park reports a surge in applications (Times-Dispatch) With company after company announcing layoffs, Kings Dominion is hiring. And applicants are flocking — often from long distances — to put their names in for a job at the 400-acre theme park in Hanover County. What recession? Avid grows again (Virginia Gazette) Seven years ago, the… Read more »